Jan. 6 committee to vote on referring Trump for criminal charges  —  The vote is expected at a public meeting on Monday as the committee prepares to release its final report  —  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to vote …

Twitter announces, then quickly retracts ban on promoting other social media  —  Hours after Twitter banned users from promoting accounts on other major social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social, the controversial prohibition vanished from its policy page.

Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos?  His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction.  —  Mr. Santos, a Republican from New York, says he's the “embodiment of the American dream.”  But he seems to have misrepresented a number of his career highlights.  —  George Santos, whose election …

'He's Got a Huge Problem'  —  PHOENIX — A few weeks before Election Day, Mike Pence stood in the arid Arizona heat to give a boost to someone who was at that moment locked in a fight for a Senate seat.  —  Pence had been invited by David McIntosh — the president of the conservative Club for Growth and …

‘THE central issue’: How the fall of Roe v. Wade shook the 2022 election  —  On May 4, less than 48 hours after a draft opinion was published showing the Supreme Court was poised to end the federal right to abortion, a group of eight strangers gathered around a conference table in the Detroit suburbs to talk about the news.

Scoop: Stacey Abrams campaign in debt after blowout loss  —  After raising more than $100 million in her second bid to be Georgia governor, the Stacey Abrams campaign owes more than $1 million in debt to vendors, two-time campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo confirmed to Axios.

The U.S. Needs to Change the Way It Does Business With China  —  In a recent speech, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo suggested an incremental shift in how the United States approaches “competitiveness and the China challenge.”  She recognized the serious threat from China …

Veteran CNN investigative journalist Drew Griffin dead at 60  —  Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects to engage in a story, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, his family said.  He was 60.

Scoop: Kevin McCarthy goes on offense in speaker battle … - “Kevin gave them an opportunity to negotiate in good faith,” a McCarthy adviser told me.  — “Now there's going to be more of an effort to expose the craziness of what they're doing.” … - Now, fears are rising …

U.S. Scores $4 Billion Windfall on Oil-Reserve Sales  —  Washington emerges as unlikely winner after releases from Strategic Petroleum Reserve  —  Volatile energy markets have made 2022 a big year for commodity traders.  One of the biggest and perhaps most unlikely winners: The U.S. government.

Elon Musk blamed a Twitter account for a stalker.  Police see no link.  —  The Twitter owner threatened legal action, changed the platform's rules and suspended journalists' accounts after a confrontation involving his security team at a gas station.  But the incident's timing and location cast doubt on a link to the @ElonJet account.

McDaniel faces furious campaign from right in race for RNC chair  —  PHOENIX — Ronna McDaniel's path to another two-year term leading the Republican National Committee faces a major obstacle: Some of the loudest voices in the conservative movement are calling for her to go.